Saturday, May 30, 2009

Inky Fonts

Although I fashioned my banner with my own pen and ink, and subsequent inky fingers ;) It is nice to know you can get the same without the mess. Olicana Fonts convincingly suggests the texture and flow of ink. Available at FontShop.

I really love this but would have to take a loan to have it. Blot Test is a symbol font inspired by the work of German psychologist Hermann Rorschach [1885-1922]. His famous 10 inkblots were introduced in 1921 as a monograph called “Psychodiagnostik.” During the 1940’s and 50’s the “Rorschach Ink Blot Test” was the preferred choice for testing patients by clinical psychologists. Later it was criticized as “subjective” and “projective” in nature, therefore its reliability was questioned. You can draw your own conclusions from these digitized ink blots created in the spirit of Rorschach’s original ink blot test. Designed by Delve Withrington.